Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Love Slavery [Hikam 210]
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That's why Allah subhanho wa Taala says something in the Quran the
verse that I read earlier from Surah Jaffe and verse 23 or 408
Amanita Allahu Hawa. Have you seen the one who has taken his Lord as
His desires? So his desires are his Lord, that literally that's
what Allah is saying, This is what people do that they've taken their
desires as the Lord.
What are the Allahu Allahu Allah? I mean, there's multiple ways to
read this, but Allah subhanaw taala den has let him stray
because of his knowledge of what this person was going to do. He's
left him alone to do that then led him straight, right? And then
after that, when it gets really bad, Allah says, well, Hamada
summary, Allah subhanho wa Taala then puts a Sealander ears, on
their hearing, and on their heart, and a veil over their eyes or
their sight.
So then, after Allah subhanaw taala, or beyond the law, who's
going to be able to guide this person?
Meaning, Allahu Akbar, what this seems to indicate here is that
when a person becomes so fixated on other things, and becomes the
slave of those things, then eventually Allah gets so angry,
that He then puts a veil on their ears, on their site, and on their
heart, so then they won't be able to come out of that.
So then they stayed down in that they stay and they just so focused
on everything else, and it becomes difficult for them to get out of
that. Unless somehow they find the little room in there to call on
Allah subhanho wa Taala then Allah extracts them.
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And it's wisdom number 210. This is actually a really beautiful one
this just really short and sweet and it's right to the point is
what if nada Illa al Iskander, he says he says ma che and il
Quintella who have done well who Allah you hippo and Hakuna the
lady here Abdon absolute rule of life, ma che and Illa Candela who
are often well who are your headboard and the corner the lady
here Hampton. You have not loved anything without being its slave.
What it means is that whenever you love anything, you will become its
slave. That's what love does to you. You can't help it if you have
pure love for something like genuine love for something, you
will
according to the studies on love.
Love is one of those emotions that when it overtakes you, it makes
you at your most selfless. It brings you in your most selfless
state, your selfishness goes away. When you love something, you're
willing to give it all you will give you a full sacrifice, and you
become totally
selfless and committed to it.
In other words, he is saying give nada la saying he's rephrasing
that he's saying you will become a slave because you're willing to do
anything for it. You don't matter anymore. When you have somebody
you love so much you don't yourself. No longer matters. It's
all about the other person.
It's an amazing feeling. The prophets, Allah lorrison said it
like this and her book has shed your army where you seem your love
for something will blind you and defend you
from anything else, including yourself in many cases.
You just worried about your love, you're willing to sacrifice
yourself that's why people commit suicide when he can't have the
worldly love anymore.
with Allah subhanho wa Taala you never have to have that kind of
sacrifice, meaning you don't have to commit suicide. Because Allah
is always living is the living one Hayyan a human so you've never
loved anything without becoming a slave. And they said something
that he says but he does not want you to be someone else's slave.
So if you love anything, you will become enslaved
But Allah doesn't want you to be anybody else's slave because he is
your master, he created you. So why should you be anybody else's
slave? Which means that you can't live anything else except Allah.
If you want to live anything else he needs to be for the sake of
Allah through Allah and by Allah.
So just because you love Allah doesn't mean you will No, no, you
don't love anything else. It's just that you love it for the sake
of Allah. So it's actually love for Allah.
He loves your parents because Allah subhanaw taala said, so you
love your children, you love your spouse because Allah said so. So
that's love for Allah subhanho wa Taala but your love must be
primarily for ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada to an amazing aphorism. You
have not loved anything without becoming its slave. But he does
not want you to be anybody else's slave, which is a message to say
that you can't love anything else.
May Allah subhanaw taala remove this love that we have for
anything else, then life becomes easy. That is the answer to
everything. Allahumma zakenna hubback Oh, Allah, grant us your
love.
So what he's essentially saying here is that ALCL the heart is
this thing that we have, which everybody should have, we do say
that he doesn't have a heart. Because he's just so overwhelmed
with level crazy things that they don't have a love that you expect
people to have love of decency, love of compassion and empathy,
they don't have that. Because they're just so focused on some
things, he doesn't even have a heart. That's just because they're
overtaken, he doesn't have a heart, but the heart is overtaken,
it's dominated by something else, love of something else, which has
become slave to the wrong thing. And it doesn't become safe to the
wrong thing. That's the thing. So he says that whenever anybody
loves anything, they will fully focus on it, they will fully go
after it. And they will submit to it. They will humble themselves to
that thing.
And they will be willing to obey it and be obedient to that thing.
Whatever that thing demands from you, people are willing to do
crazy things.
People are willing to stand overnight in long queues, because
they love a product for some reason. A product that's gonna get
old within a few days that you have it in probably get bored of
it
is definitely going to become old in a few months, and something
else is going to come up are you willing to go overnight with that
sounds kind of crazy.
You're willing to fight to defend something that you support, even
though those that you support, don't even know you.
Don't give you anything. You're not even making any money of it.
But you're willing to fight with people just because you heard them
criticize your team. mazing isn't it? What an amazing emotion that
is?
quite fascinating idea that you're willing to fight with somebody
else, quarrel with them, break ties with them, swear at them,
curse them, because they said something about someone that you
support a team that you support, even though that team doesn't
benefit you in any way, except that you support and they excite
you.
That's all emotion.
If they any of those players saw you they wouldn't even know who
you are.
Right? They don't even care for you to be honest. You make no
money from this you make nothing from this.
But mashallah you love something so much that you're willing to put
to their name onto your number plates. And you pay for that.
And it's a designer, it's maybe a what you call a designer brands
who want your money anyway. And you're giving them free promotion,
they didn't pay for your number plates. You just love it so much.
Because you buy their products, you buy their products, you pay
extra money to buy their products, you earn everything from that
particular brand. And then mashallah you advertise it as well
for free. That's crazy.
That brand is very successful that has made you do that.
But that's human emotion. That's human emotion as multiple causes
for that and this is exactly what he's speaking, you will become the
slave. That is why the poet says in Malmo, Heba Lima your hippo
will to the lover is an absolute is absolutely obedient to the one
he loves. You can have a very, very powerful person you give him
and that person develops a proper genuine love for something good or
bad, whatever it is, that become their slave.
They're the only is always access to someone is always access to
someone through their beloved through what they like. That's
what they say, find what they like, and you can control them.
So then what the what our
Commentator is saying is that
this concept of love that is for multiple things, this actually is
what is Robu do for Allah this is actually servitude for Allah that
is what's required if you take that example of somebody
supporting their team supporting a product and and so on. Right and
you put that you put Allah subhanaw taala in that place, that
is what it's supposed to be that is actually what Allah wanted from
us because Allah says
that the people who believe they are most intense in their love for
Allah
that's really if we can somehow you know if you know how to love
something you're crazy about your love for something that mashallah
you know how to love you just need to replace that with Allah was
like just slip that thing off and put a light in that place and
mashallah, you've done it because you know how to be obsessed. You
know how to love.
So he says, This is how he got a little booty here. This is the
reality of servitude. This is how it should be. This is the
experience of it. A hoodoo Ouattara absolute humility, and
absolute obedience, you're humbled in front of that thing. Like if
you if that thing came in front of you just wow. See if the gift of a
iPad, like a really expensive iPad, he didn't want it for you as
an overkill for tried to sell it. So somebody told him that this
particular guy, he's really into his a Apple products. So he went
to him and he said, You know, I'm willing, do you want to buy this?
So the guy looks at it admiringly? And is like, Who wouldn't want
another i Who wouldn't want as I remember the words, who wouldn't
want another apple product?
Right, because a really expensive I but he says the opponent just
bought something and I'm out of money, so I can't take it. But it
just that admiration was amazing. Just so I can have another apple
products.
Swan Allah.
I wish I could just have another moment to see the GABA just some
more time
in the huddle in the reality, Jana.
Now then he says, but the problem is right, this he then
problematizes this, he says that you need to be fully servitude to
something full servitude to something but then he says the
problem is that human has only his heart has only one direction. The
human heart can only be focused on one thing fully, partially in many
things, but fully only on one thing. And the human only has one
heart. Allah subhanaw taala says Magette Allah with the origin in
men called the UniFi JioFi.
For any man, Allah subhanho wa Taala has only put one heart in
there inside them as really interesting. Allah says Rajul
rather than insan because sometimes women do have two hearts
when they've got the child and so it's very interesting.
So when the HUD has just one direction
if they eventually do find their main love and Allah subhanaw taala
towards their master, if they do become focused like that on their
master, they will then everything else will paint in significance
and it'll all become
like a shadow.
Everything else pale in its and then a person will become fully a
slave to Allah subhana wa Darna.
However, on the other hand, if a person becomes fully obsessed, by
fulfilling their desires, because you've got some money now, well,
you don't have money, but you're just waiting to get some money,
where you have the money and you can buy what you want. So then you
buy and you buy and you buy and you buy because you have, then
that means you become we become slaves to our desires.
Then what happens then is you're definitely not going to be able to
be focused on Allah subhanho wa taala, it'll become second place,
third place fourth place because there'll be so many first place
and that a person is going to become slave to anything else and
everything else. Why would the person work so hard them to make
that money so that they can fulfill their desires? What drives
you to do that? What drives you to be jealous of somebody else? What
drives you to compete in that sense, even though you've got
enough to survive on
now the problem is he says Allah subhanho wa Taala is never
satisfied with any of his servants, becoming servants of
others. Why would you? You're the one who gave them gave them
existence in this world and now they are turning to others as
though they're gonna get something from them.
Now it's,
it might be understandable that you become slave to somebody who
is giving you a lot but most of us are slaves to things that is not
giving us anything. We have to give it everything.
That's why Allah subhanho wa Taala says some
In the Quran, the verse that I read earlier from Surah Al Jaffe
and verse 23, for our eight, Amanita ILAHA, who have you seen
the one who has taken his Lord as His desires, so his desires or his
Lord, that literally that's what Allah is saying, This is what
people do, that they've taken their desires as the Lord.
What Allah Allah Who are their ailment, there's multiple ways to
read this. But Allah subhanaw taala den has let him stray
because of his knowledge of what this person was going to do. He's
left him alone to do that, then let him straight, right. And then
after that, when he gets really bad, Allah says, Will Hamada
summary, Allah subhanho wa Taala then puts a seal on their ears, on
their hearing, and on their heart, and a veil over their eyes or
their sight.
So then, after Allah subhana, wa taala, or beyond the law, who's
going to be able to guide this person,
meaning Allahu Akbar, what this seems to indicate here is that
when a person becomes so fixated on other things, and becomes the
slave of those things, then eventually Allah gets so angry,
that He then puts a veil, on their ears, on their site, and on their
heart, so then they won't be able to come out of that.
So then they stay down in that they stay, and they just so
focused on everything else. And it becomes difficult for them to get
out of that. Unless, somehow they find the little room in there to
call on Allah subhanho wa taala, then Allah extracts them. So then
they just don't see what's wrong, because they think this is what it
is. So then the commentator says that this idea is clear, explicit
with regards to
making anything, the repugnance and the ugliness of making
anything else your Lord.
Now, just as a little quick side point, there are some of the
scholars of
spirituality who've completely agree with what explanation I've
just given for this iron. However, they are always looking for an
alternative reading, while not dismissing the main reading. So
it's kind of really interesting what they've come up with, though
we're not going to insist on that, because that's just an
implication. So they what they saying that have you seen, the one
who has made his Lord, His desire
his lord is his hit, who has made his Lord His desire, which is in
the other way, which means that
my desire is entirely for my lord, my lord is the object of my
desire.
And Allah subhanahu wa Tada.
He says,
Allah subhanho wa Taala has now Let him remain.
Allah subhanho wa Taala has Let him remain going around, in his in
his love, his let him stray in his love, like he can go wherever he
wants, stumbling around in the love of Allah subhanaw taala.
And Allah subhanho wa Taala has put a
veil over his,
his ears, his hearing and everything, so he sees nothing but
Allah.
They've taken in that meaning
while saying that it's just another way of reading it. But
they don't insist on that meaning.
And then he says, who is going to give guidance to such a person
such guidance, such a great guidance besides Allah subhanho wa
Taala who can give you guidance makes absolute sense in terms of
the explanation
La ilaha IL Allah.
Right. Now, there's some Hadith in Sahih al Bukhari, there's a hadith
which whenever I see that the way the prophets Allah, some said it
was amazing. And we just have to put a more modern iteration to it
because people's objects of luxury have changed. So the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said Teresa Butina you wouldn't get
home
destroyed and perish is the slave of dinars and Durham's
pounds and dollars and whatever, you know, whichever currency you
want to speak about President dinar and dill Holmes, he says,
well, Pettyfer Well, Camila and so on. So that was really expensive
sheets, expensive wraps expensive cloth. So in those days, that
would be the kind of assets you would have. So today, it would be
designer goods.
Right today would be designer goods. Literally, that's what the
person was saying that these kinds of expensive products that
People are just so after all the time, you can have them but just
don't be a slave to them. And he said was xojo
the slave of their spouse?
It could be either way but he said wife so he's talking to a man
slave of their wife.
Junaid Al Baghdadi somebody asked him many lab who's a slave.
He says the one in whose hearts
there is any connection with other than Allah subhana wa Tada as long
as you got some connection with others and ALLAH SubhanA you're
still a slave, meaning not a slave of Allah, but the bad sleep.
He says because, you know, in the early days when you have slaves,
the Sharia Had Allah subhanaw taala and Quran found multiple
ways to free them, right? One of them was that look, if you don't
want to free them for free, then
give them a charge, make a contract with them that you pay,
you go on work, pay me this much money and then you can free
yourself that becomes like a very specific type of say where they
become semi free, right because they can go on work for
themselves. And then when they got enough money, they can give it to
the the master they still receive at the end of the day. Because if
they can't make up that kind of money, they go back to being a
slave. Ultimately, they still a slave even though they're more
independent than other slaves. So he's so he's using that as an
example that as long as he's got one down left to pay a pound left
to pay. He's still a slave.
And then he says okay, who is a free person who is the truly free
person so Junaid Al Baghdadi says the one who has been able to
escape and extract himself from the slave flung from this
servitude of his own self. And he no longer has those full desires
for anything else.
Now look at this, this is the way the show you have that time used
to treat used to teach and nurture their students. Right. Now
remember, put this in context, this is not something that you can
do at home necessarily right with your children or yourself or your
wife or your spouse or your husband. Right? So listen, Shibley
is Shibley Rahima, who lives consider one of those ollie up
pious, really pious individuals of the past. He had a student
somebody gave the student of his a nice, Juba.
Right one of these nice cloaks. Now,
the shake Shibley Rahimullah had a really, really nice hat.
Now, it just so turns out that this student looks at that hand
thinks that hat would go very, very well with my Jabba. He
desires it. Okay. Now, somehow Shibley figures this out, right?
Because he must have seen him just, you know, stay with somebody
so long, you understand? So what he does the shake fair, finds it
out, tells me to take the job off, takes his hat off
and then goes and throws it in the fire
off of him.
Right? Don't do this at home. Okay, he does that. And then he
says to him, there should be no, absolutely no attention paid to
anybody but Allah. So let this hat go to * essentially. And let
this job ago, they should not distract you.
I mean, this is the likes of the sahabi who was sitting in his
orchard who was praying Salat in his orchard. And in between,
there's a nice bird or something got distracted with it. It gives
this whole orchard in the path of Allah, this distracted me from my
prayer. This is sunnah to do this, but
you can only do it once you get a heart that's really prepared
otherwise, you start giving away everything. And then you're going
to be miserable. And shaytan will overtake you and pigment or kind
of life to you. So don't do that. That's why even when Josie says
that people get a bit,
get a bit excited about leaving the dunya. So they give up their
business they give up everything. And they they okay for about a
month or two because you know, the adrenaline and everything is
keeping them going. And then after that, when the going gets tough,
they become very miserable. You can't do this without having a
proper heart with and without that love then you can bear anything.
Now there may be somebody who's actually criticized Shibley for
doing this. What did you just do? Says you won't understand that
because this was thought to be a this was training in action.
Right? Otherwise we don't throw things away like that. But this
was to teach a lesson Subhanallah anyway, what is the muhabba of
ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada. So there are three stages to the love of
Allah. We're going to just talk about it briefly. We don't have
too much time to go into that. We've discussed this multiple
times before but there are three stages in the law of Allah. Let's
find out where we are.
Right
So the first stage, because the first stage of it is just that you
fulfill the obligations of Allah and you avoid the prohibitions of
Allah.
If we can do that, that means that you have some love for Allah. If
we're struggling with that, then that's the first stage already,
you know, in problem because Allah subhanaw taala says call In Kuntum
to hipbone Allah, for Toby Rooney, you've come along. So that's the
first stage.
Lay saying say that if you love Allah, then follow me. And Allah
will love you. So if you follow the Prophet sallallahu alayhi
salam Colosse, then Allah, we love you, you love Allah. That's the
first stage. The middle of stage, he says, is Lucha Julie Sandy with
Viken, where your tongue is constantly on the remembrance of
Allah. So it goes from just obligate, just fulfilling
obligations and avoiding prohibitions to then be constantly
remembering him with your tongue
and your heart. So your heart is constantly you know, conscious of
him, your tongue is constantly remembering him Subhanallah at
hamdulillah Allahu Akbar, La ilaha illa Allah, you're constantly
reading something, it's on your tongue, Allah, whatever it is, and
in your heart. And then he says, Okay, what is the state hired?
What is the last stage or the highest stage the ultimate stage?
He then says, I'm really sorry, but new hire to holla to the
recovery borrow,
its highest stage cannot be explained. It cannot be
articulated with any words, that is a matter of taste and
experience that cannot be imparted to anybody else. And you can't
explain that to anybody else.
Subhanallah there's a poem by poet who is saying the following which
is indicating towards a state Philip Kerr il Allahu La Vallejo.
Habib going live colbyn Verba and Condi Mac city, honey and lemon
curd Nether hub but Habibi will harder be Turkey lady a chroma mo
ready. Now Iman Bella had in La de mucha, daddy, other other dill.
And first if you call the machete,
he kind of gives some indication of where he is with this, he says
that, besides Allah, there is nothing that has remained, there
is no Lord aside from him, a beloved in the hearts in a heart,
which has totally become oblivious of anything else and everything
else.
So glad tidings for the one who has attained the love of his
beloved and has been able to take a deep dive, by abandoning all
else, into the best of into the best of pools, into the best of
pools. This is such a blessing that has no limits, that has no,
no limit. Right, and it is constantly being renewed. It is a
constantly renewed form of blessing that brings you great
benefits other other delivers, how many times is it being renewed,
meaning this blessing will give you so much excitement, that it
will be an everlasting excitement that changes and that refreshes
itself with every single with every single breath in as with
every observation that you make, I mean, you can only experience that
I mean, that's very, very difficult to explain. Subhanallah
so then the commentator actually says that look, these kinds of
things. This last stage is such that common people and even many
elect people, special people can't even figure this out. Why in the
Maya Dooku ha ha certain fossa. The only people that will really
understand this and taste it and experience it other very special
of the special ones.
May Allah make us on that one day I say that kind of. I wish I could
say that more seriously. I say that half hearted he
unfortunately, because he just seems so difficult to attain, but
at least we can ask Allah to facilitate for us some otherwise
he just finds like where are we going to get that from where it's
a special of the special? Like there's asylees and the Gilani is
how you're going to get to that level. But for an Allah nothing is
complicated, we can at least hope for it. Or we can make an effort
to get somewhere. Now one thing one thing we have to understand is
that the meaning of loving ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada is that we love
him, not because he needs our love and not because he benefits from
that.
It's because it's beneficial for us because that fulfills the
ultimate purpose for which we were made. Then Allah will reward us
and he wants to reward us. He just wants an excuse to reward us
suddenly he'll reward us. Allah becoming Allah loving is seven
means that Allah will make somebody close to him.
That's what it means when Allah begins to love than Allah will
make and draw somebody close to him. So we
Ask Allah subhanho wa Taala to make this part easy and to bless
us in this regard to facilitate it for us, Chef Abdullah Ganga he
says, in his commentary of this, he says when man loves on this
earth, anything besides Allah, he becomes its slave. Because of the
deep relationship that develops. This is just human emotion. That's
human nature, right? The object of love can be love of wealth, or
enslaving love of spouses and children, somebody could just love
their children spouse so much that they just do everything for them.
And forget about Allah. believe me, believe me, if you love Allah,
you can love your spouse and children for the sake of Allah and
you'll get much more happiness.
People think that you're going to become some kind of crazy person
who goes around right saying I love God and cares about nothing
else is some disheveled hair, and soiled clothing. That's not the
case. That's image zoob. That's a very special category of people
who've lost their senses, which is not recommended.
I mean, that they are accountable because they've lost their sense
of but that's not something that you hope to do. What we hope to do
is to be true human beings with proper love for Allah and this
love for everything else around it. Then you will see how your
children make you happy when they give some sadaqa. Your children
make you happy when they pray, when they get off at the 100.
Right, when they are also loving Allah, then you'll see the
happiness and that would be true happiness. May Allah make that
easy for us. That's why he says separation from such an object of
love will produce grief. That's the problem because they all are
going to go anything besides Allah is going to disappear, is going to
dissipate, it's going to become sick, it's going to die, then what
happens then?
This then is the meaning of enslavement to the object of one's
love. It should, however, be understood that the love of
worldly objects that is detestable is such a love that induces the
slave to ignore the sacred law
where the lover devotes himself to the object of love, even if the
love leads to the violation of the law.
If somebody loves the Quran, loves the Hadith loves the Prophet
sallallahu Sallam then that is love for Allah. There's nothing
wrong with that loves to help people and assist people for the
sake of Allah that Allah for Allah.
If priority is according to the sacred law, thus keeping the love
subservient, then the natural love one has for certain matters, such
as children or relatives is not abominable.
In fact, this love is part of the Prophetic practice sunnah in such
instances, because it's all governed by the obedience to Allah
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mercy on us, Allah accept all of us, oh Allah bring us close to you
make us the way you want us to be our law writers of the fortunate
ones. Oh Allah, allow us to be focused just on you remove our
distraction with other things. Allah allow our priorities to be
corrected. or Allah allow our priorities to be
the way you want them to be. Oh Allah, Oh Allah make this easy for
us. There are so many things are distractions nowadays. There are
so many things that
that take our attention away are Allah we ask you for special focus
on you. So why not be corroborated and Iosif on surround on one
stream from that regard?
The point of a lecture is to encourage people to act to get
further an inspiration and encouragement suasion. The next
step is to actually start learning seriously to read books to take on
that subject of Islam and to understand all the subjects of
Islam at least at the basic level, so that we can become more aware
of what our deen wants from us. And that's why we started Rayyan
courses so that you can actually take organize lectures on demand
whenever you have free time, especially for example, the
Islamic essentials course that we have on that Islamic essentials
certificate which you take 20 Short modules and at the end of
that insha Allah you will have gotten the basics of most of the
most important topics in Islam and you'll feel a lot more confident.
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step is to actually start learning seriously, to read books to take
on that subject of Islam and to understand all the subjects of
Islam at least at the basic level, so that we can become more aware
of what our deen wants from us. And that's why we started Rayyan
courses so that you can actually take organize lectures on demand
whenever you have free time, especially for example, the
Islamic essentials course that we have on that Islamic essentials
certificate, which you take 20 Short modules and at the end of
that inshallah you will have gotten the basics of most of the
most important topics in Islam and you'll feel a lot more confident.
You don't have to leave lectures behind you can continue to live,
you know, to listen to lectures, but you need to have this more
sustained study as well to Zakah law here in Santa Monica when I
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